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Show WASHINGTON Nfws rfy FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER high school course including six units in chemistry, physics, mathematics, or drafting may apply to the U. S. Civil ' Service commission at Philadelphia for training as inspectors of radios, telephones, and other equipment for the Army Signal Corps. Successful Suc-cessful applicants will be trained for from six to nine monthSi one-half one-half of the time at a vocational school and the other half at an institute of college grade, the department said. Salaries will be $120 a month, during training, and $135 a month when training is completed. RELATIONS WITH MARTINIQUE Secretary of State Hull told a press conference fuel has been removed from the French warships war-ships at Martinique and further demobilization work is in progress. prog-ress. It is expected that demobilization de-mobilization of the French warships war-ships at the island and the conversations relating to the vessels will be conculded within five or six days, the State department de-partment said. However, the de- piirl V,io ruip Tint WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS President Roosevelt by Executive Execu-tive order established the Women's Wom-en's Army Auxiliary Corps and directed War Secretary Stimson to limit the initial mobilization to 25,000. Secretary Stimson appointed ap-pointed Mrs. William P. Hobby of Houston, Texas, at present Chief of Women's Interests Section Sec-tion of the War department Bureau Bu-reau of Public Relations, as W A A C director. The Corps. Mr. Stimson said will be composed of women volunteers for military necessarily mean that all military mili-tary questions will be concluded within this period, and other questions mainly economic, will require continuing discussions. AGRICULTURE The Agricultural Marketing administration, ad-ministration, in order to prevent pre-vent a shortage of strategic vegetable vege-table seed, has contracted with 19 producers for production of 1,536,000 pounds' of carrot seed and 1,175,000 pounds of onion seed in 1943, the Agriculture department de-partment said. Heavy domestic and Lend-Lease demands made this action necessary the department de-partment reported. ' Since two years are required to produce the seed, contracts were made now to encourage adequate production next year, the department said. TREASURY RECEIPTS $15 BILLION IN VA MONTHS Treasury receipts from all sources totaled $15,797,000,000 from January 1 to May 15, the department de-partment said far in excess of any amount ever collected in a comparable period of time. Included In-cluded was the purchase of $3,117000,000 of War Savings Bonds and Stamps; income tax payments of $3,905,000,000, principally prin-cipally in the first installment period; $4,208,000,000 from sales of Treasury bonds; $1,506,000,000 the Army to replace enlisted men who are now performing noncombatant duties as typists, telephone operators, clerks, laboratory lab-oratory technicians, etc. They will not replace Civil Service employees em-ployees now working for the War department. Applicants for Officer Training School must' apply in person at any local recruiting re-cruiting station. Because recruiting recruit-ing is on a regional basis, no applications sent direct to the War department can be giver consideration. TANK PRODUCTION One type of tank for the Army is now being produced at a monthly rate that is equal to the annual rate last year, the OEM announced. All tank production reached a monthly figure several months ago that exceeded total tank production during the entire en-tire World War 1 period, the announcement an-nouncement said. RELATIONS WITH PANAMA AND DEFENSE OF THE PANAMA CANAL The U. S- and Panama signed an agreement formally permitting permit-ting U. S. forces to take over! important defense areas in the Republic of Panama for the mutual defense of the Panama Canal the State department announced. an-nounced. In anticipation of the agreement, Panama has already permitted U. S. military forces "to occupy and develop those areas as already permitted U.S. military forces "to occupy and trom sale of Certificates of Indebtedness; In-debtedness; $343,000,000 from sale of Tax Savings notes. The cost of the war is expected to increase progressively from the present rate of about $3500,000,000 a month to more than $5,000,000,000 a month by the end of 1942, the Treasury said. Proof of the financial finan-cial soundness and patriotism of the country is that such a vast amount could be collected without with-out dislocating the national economy or without widespread public awareness of the total amount of money involved, the Treasury said. INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING WITH-HOLDING PLAN The Treasury recommended to Congress that part- of individual income taxes be collected in advance ad-vance by withholding at the source 10 per cent of an individual's indi-vidual's estimated taxable income. in-come. For a single person, 10 per cent of an of his income in excess ex-cess of $11 a week would be withheld under the plan The 10 per cent withholding tax would be applied to a married man without children on all his Income over $26 a week, and an additional exemption of $s 50 a week would be granted for each chUd or additional de-penent develop those areas as gun emplacements, em-placements, airplane detector stations, sta-tions, bombing ranges and auxiliary aux-iliary airfields," the department said. In addition to defense arrangements, ar-rangements, it provides for settlement set-tlement of several outstanding problems in relation to the two countries. The military agreement must be ratified by the Panamanian Pana-manian National Assembly, the department said, while the agreement agree-ment on the other points will have to be approved by the U.S. Congress. The department said three points of the agreement are "of particular significance": (1) withdrawal of this government's govern-ment's Panama railroad company from real estate operations in Panama City and Colon by turning turn-ing over to Panama lots owned by the company in those cities (2) delivery to the Panamian government of water works and sewage systems lying within territory under Panamanian government gov-ernment jurisdiction; (3) Liquidation Liqui-dation of Panama's indebtedness arising from construction of the Rio Hato-Chorrera highway LABOR TRAINING , The Labor department reported report-ed women between 20 years 6 months, and 35 y;ars of ae who have completed a four-year |
